Jaron Ennis defended his IBF welterweight title in his homecoming combat at a bouncing Wells Fargo Heart in Philadephia.
“Boots” dropped and stopped challenger David Avanesyan after 5 accomplished rounds. In keeping with CompuBox figures, “47% of Ennis’ landed punches had been physique punches, 53% of his landed energy punches had been physique punches. After the fifth spherical, the ring physician halted the bout, the place Ennis landed 32 of 53 [60%] of his energy punches and knocked Avaneysan down.
Ennis strikes on to extra vital challenges and will look to combat at 154 kilos within the close to future.
After his victory, Turki Alalshikh made a public plea to stage Terence Crawford vs Ennis in some unspecified time in the future.
“I simply reached out to boxer Jaron Ennis and Eddie Hearn to congratulate him on his win. I’d like to see Ennis in a combat with Crawford at weight 154 quickly.”
Within the co-feature, Jalil Hackett fought off a courageous resistance from Peter Dobson to stay undefeated.
“Over the primary 5 rounds, Hacket out-landed Dobson 121-53. After a considerable fourth and fifth spherical the place Hacket landed 65 punches, it regarded like Dobson could be stopped for the primary time in his profession. Nevertheless, Dobson fought Hacket on comparatively even phrases during the last 5 rounds, touchdown 74 punches to Hacket’s 79. Two judges scored the combat 97-93, and the third decide scored it 96-94, all for Hacket,” learn the CompuBox stats.
Hackett, who left Floyd Mayweather to affix Matchroom, is seeking to transfer swiftly in direction of a world title shot.
Skye Nicholson walked away with the WBC featherweight title after a dominant win over Dyana Vargas.
Nicholson gained each spherical of the ten as she pushed in direction of a unification. CompuBox mentioned, “Vargas solely landed 29 punches over ten rounds, seven of which had been jabs. Nicolson landed 83 jabs, accounting for 62% of her punches. All three judges scored the combat 100-90 for Nicolson.”
Lastly, on the central portion of the cardboard, Khalil Coe defeated Kwame Ritter of their USWBC Gentle-Heavyweight title bout.
“After a gap body the place each fighters landed 14 punches, Coe turned up the warmth, hurting Ritter with an overhand proper after which chasing Ritter across the ring whereas touchdown energy punches to Ritter’s head and physique till the ref halted the bout at 1:59 of the second spherical. Within the second spherical, Coe landed 21 of 42 (50%) of his energy punches,” said CompuBox.
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